RFC 2914: Congestion Control Principles

The goal of this document is to explain the need for congestion control in the Internet, and to discuss what constitutes correct congestion control. This…

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Incoming relationships (44 related RFCs)

Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 7141: Byte and Packet Congestion Notification
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5424: The Syslog Protocol
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9293: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5730: Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5810: Forwarding and Control Element Separation (ForCES) Protocol Specification
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3730: Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8311: Relaxing Restrictions on Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Experimentation
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4553: Structure-Agnostic Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) over Packet (SAToP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7414: A Roadmap for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Specification Documents
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4930: Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9438: CUBIC for Fast and Long-Distance Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3734: Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) Transport Over TCP
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7068: Diameter Overload Control Requirements
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8313: Use of Multicast across Inter-domain Peering Points
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4631: Link Management Protocol (LMP) Management Information Base (MIB)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7016: Adobe's Secure Real-Time Media Flow Protocol
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9959: Careful Resume: Convergence of Congestion Control from Retained State
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3261: SIP: Session Initiation Protocol
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3819: Advice for Internet Subnetwork Designers
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7567: IETF Recommendations Regarding Active Queue Management
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7657: Differentiated Services (Diffserv) and Real-Time Communication
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3416: Version 2 of the Protocol Operations for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3517: A Conservative Selective Acknowledgment (SACK)-based Loss Recovery Algorithm for TCP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3539: Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) Transport Profile
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4774: Specifying Alternate Semantics for the Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Field
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3714: IAB Concerns Regarding Congestion Control for Voice Traffic in the Internet
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6675: A Conservative Loss Recovery Algorithm Based on Selective Acknowledgment (SACK) for TCP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7510: Encapsulating MPLS in UDP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4618: Encapsulation Methods for Transport of PPP/High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC) over MPLS Networks
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8084: Network Transport Circuit Breakers
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4614: A Roadmap for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Specification Documents
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8086: GRE-in-UDP Encapsulation
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6077: Open Research Issues in Internet Congestion Control
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8931: IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) Selective Fragment Recovery
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9332: Dual-Queue Coupled Active Queue Management (AQM) for Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5734: Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) Transport over TCP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8867: Test Cases for Evaluating Congestion Control for Interactive Real-Time Media
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9347: Aggregation and Fragmentation Mode for Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) and Its Use for IP Traffic Flow Security (IP-TFS)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9622: An Abstract Application Programming Interface (API) for Transport Services
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5290: Comments on the Usefulness of Simple Best-Effort Traffic
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7122: Datagram Convergence Layers for the Delay- and Disruption-Tolerant Networking (DTN) Bundle Protocol and Licklider Transmission Protocol (LTP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7547: Management of Networks with Constrained Devices: Problem Statement and Requirements
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7928: Characterization Guidelines for Active Queue Management (AQM)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9956: A Non-Queue-Building Per-Hop Behavior (NQB PHB) for Differentiated Services